Google Docs for Education

The Crib Sheet

Google Docs

The Tool

Google Docs

Overview (with Links to Help Pages)

• Documents
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• Forms

Group Activity

1. Who are we? Enter Information on this form
2. How do we see the data? Click here to see our data
3. What can we do with the data?

Individual Activity

1. Create a document or presentation.
2. Share the document with a neighbor and with me (so I can show it).
3. Take a look at the Insert Menu. What are some of the things you put in your document?
4. What are two ways you might use a Google Doc for at your school?
5. Name and Save your document. Create a folder and put your document in the folder.
6. Color your folder.
7. Browse the Template Gallery

Create a self-grading quiz!

1. Take the self grading quiz
2. Take a look at how it's set up
3. In a small group, create a three question quiz using a Google Form.
4. Solicit sample answers from other participants.
5. Create an IF formula for each question to "grade" the question. (Each IF formula needs to be in a new column.)
6. Fill Down so that the IF formulas you've written can "grade" all the responses at once!
7. Advanced: Create a SUM formula to total up the total score for each person that took the quiz. Then create another formula to calculate the percentage. Finally, create a nested IF formula to convert the percentages to letter grades!
8. Time Permitting: Share your quiz with the lead learner. Links to the quizes will be added below.
9. Help: How to Create a Self Grading Quiz Using Google Forms

Help and Tutorials

• Overview Presentation (From Google For Educators - Google Docs)
• Getting started:
• The Google Almanac
• The Google Suite
• Lesson Plans
• Ideas for Teachers
• Videos form the Google Docs Community
• Using Google Docs in the Classroom
• 3 Getting Started Guides for Beginners
• Google Docs Templates
• Digital Toolbox: Google Docs
• 20 Ways To Use Google Docs in the Classroom
• Snag a Table of Contents, Dictionary or Thesaurus for your Google Doc
• Google Apps Docs Interactive Tutorial
• Google Docs Keyboard Shortcuts
• 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators
• Insert Footnotes
• Google Wants YOUR Docs Ideas- click here to submit and see examples.
• New! Drawing Tools

Classroom Resources

• Create a Quiz
• Full Self Grading Quiz - Video
• How to Create a Self Grading Quiz Using Google Forms
• How to Make a Self Calculating Survey - Collete Cassinelli
• Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs
• Educator's Guide- Teaching Revision with Google Docs
• How to do peer editing with students (Screencast)
• Esther Wojciki's Docs and Spreadsheets in the Classroom
• Research Projects- Putting it all together
• NEW! Educational Spreadsheet Gadgets
• 10 Google Forms Ideas for the classroom - provides template copies for each form by Tom Barrett
• Using Google Docs in the Classroom: Tips and Tricks
• Google Docs Classroom Ideas Wiki
• Create Children's Books Using Sites and Drawing Tools Example 1 Example 2
• Sample Permission Slip for Google Apps for Education (includes Docs and other Web 2.0 tools)

Information taken directly from http://sites.google.com/site/cuegli/events/2009-10-15/docs